Tag: brain-damage

We here at BB have no problem with people who have tattoos. I have one myself although in retrospect I wish I never got it but that’s neither here nor there. However we do have a problem with certain tattoos. Those would be the face and neck tattoos. While some tattoo and body modification enthusiasts wish that tattoos like these would be considered socially acceptable they are not. Unless you’re in a band or you’re Mike Tyson it gives off an aura of being unemployable and/or a criminal.

Case in point, our subject of today’s post, one 30-year-old Joseph Rucker McFall of Cobb County, Georgia. McFail was recently indicted for beating his then 8-week old son so violently that the boy now has permanent brain damage and is blind.

While the boy’s mother was in the hospital with pneumonia the baby was being taken care of by her mother. The grandmother left the baby in the room with tattooed loser briefly before he went running out of the house. When the grandmother returned the baby was not breathing. The boy was not expected to survive.In addition to the brain damage and blindness the baby was also said to have fractures of the ribs and arms. McFail has been in jail since October which was the time of his arrest. Thankfully the boy’s mother wants nothing to do with McFail.

If you’re wondering what the tattoo in Hebrew means supposedly it says “God has his eye on you.” Apparently McFail couldn’t heed his tattoo’s advice.

You know I just noticed that I kept writing his last name as McFail. I don’t know why that keeps happening.

For the third time in a year a 4-year-old Albuquerque boy is starting his life over, but this time he has a life long disability due to abuse suffered at the hands of foster parents.

Sandra Caraveo and her boyfriend Marcos Gomez became the foster parents to the little guy and his 2-year-old sister in the summer, after he was removed in November from his biological parents and another family member for abuse. They were supposed to be giving him a better life; he has already been abused by mom and dad and then moved to another family member who took their turn abusing him and finally these two wastes of oxygen. Just fucking heartbreaking, at 4-years-old all he has known is abuse. I just want to hug him.

The weekend of October 8th Sandra took the lil’ guy to the hospital after he complained that he couldn’t see and was feeling his way around the house. Gawd…the image of this baby feeling his way around the house is like stabbing me in the heart over and over. They told doctors that he had just complained Saturday of not being able to see, however doctors believe he had been immobile for more than a week. More than fucking week…what the fuck!

So, you are probably saying Deena… what caused the lil’ guy to lose his sight and how do they know it was due to abuse. I’m getting to that, right now! Well, the doctors can’t pinpoint the exact cause of his blindness but do know that it was due to a lack of oxygen to the brain. They are saying any of the following could have caused the lack of oxygen: suffocation, being violently shaken or a hit to the head. I say “they” try all the aforementioned techniques on these fuckwads and see which one results in blindness. But hey, that’s just my humble opinion of what “they” could try, in the name of research of course.

The lil’ guy’s 2-year-old sister showed no signs of abuse but has been placed in a new foster home.

Caraveo and Gomez have been charged with child abuse resulting in great bodily harm.

Let me start off saying this, I am a mom and I have gotten frustrated with all of my kids at some point in time. When that frustration hit I would either hand off my baby to my husband, or if that was not an option, I’d put my child some place safe and walk away to take time to recollect and come back. Never has the thought of harming my child or shaking them crossed my mind to solve the problem. This is not the case for 25- year- old Michael Suchodolski of Grand Rapids, MI.

Court records show that on October 5, 2011, Michael Suchodolski was caring for his 17-day-old-daughter Karmen Johnson. Karmen’s mom, Samantha Johnson, says that Karmen wouldn’t stop crying and Suchodolski got frustrated and shook her. It is unclear if the mother was home at the time of the incident, but my guess is that she wasn’t because Suchodolski is documented as having said that when he realized the girl was injured he took her to the hospital. No mention has been made of his explanation of why he was bringing the little girl in. Knowing how the grand majority of the breeders here work I’ll bet he tried to blame it on her falling off of a couch, a bed, or somehow slamming her head in the tub. Something ridiculous that we know medical staff can see right through to try and cover his ass. Hospital staff immediately called authorities with their suspicions of abuse. What gets me is, 17 days this beautiful angel had been on this Earth, and Dip-shit McGee had to take matters into his own hands by trying to silence this girl forever!

After several tests and CT scans Karmen is documented as having a fractured skull, brain hemorrhaging, swelling of the brain, and Shaken Baby Syndrome. Facebook updates done by her mother show she was on a feeding tube and also wasn’t breathing on her own, but as the days have passed she has started to make a remarkable recovery. More recent updates by her mother show, she is still in intensive care, but the feeding tube and ventilator have since been removed, and baby Karmen has also began to move around and respond to sound. She is expected to survive, but it is still unclear how much, if any, permanent brain damage has been done.

Suchodolski is currently behind bars on a $20,000 bond. He is charged with 2 counts of 1st degree felony child abuse causing injury. If he is convicted he faces 15 years in prison. 15 years is too short if you ask me, but that’s why I’m not a judge in an actual courtroom.

Walter Z Speller beat two biological sons and a step daughter to the point of causing life long disabilities.

His first son Isaiah was tortured at 14 months – he is now 8 years old and brain damaged, blinded and paralyzed on his left side. Speller received a sentence of 2-years for his abuse of Isaiah.

Upon release he met another women with whom he bore a son – Ohene Speller; who he beat injuring his brain and paralyzing him. Ohene’s half sister, Laniah, suffered similar abuse and brain damage.

He forced the girl to stand in front of him and held her face in the vise of his hands. Speller kept his nails long so they dug into the tender skin under Laniah’s ears and around her neck. He slapped her face. When she fell, Speller forced Laniah to get up.

“He just kept hitting her and hitting her,” Campblin testified.

Speller dragged the child into the bathroom.

“I heard him telling her not to move and to stop screaming because she was crying,” Campblin testified. “Then I heard him telling her to lay down, and he turned the water on her.”

Another time, Speller beat the child with a belt. He forced the girl to strip and lie on her stomach on a bed, and he thrashed her. Then he turned Laniah over, Campblin said, and whipped her front with the belt, too.

Photos submitted as evidence show bruises and welts covering Laniah’s body. One picture shows a mark in the shape of a belt buckle branded into Laniah’s skin. A forensic pediatrician skilled in assessing cases of child abuse testified that the girl had been repeatedly and severely beaten. No part of her body remained unbruised. Laniah suffered brain damage as a result.

Speller treated his biological son no better.

One day, Campblin testified, Speller bit his baby’s face so hard his teeth left indentations and the boy’s face turned black and blue. Speller brought the wailing boy to Campblin and told her to put cocoa butter on the wound.

“He told me because he could do it; that’s his son,” Campblin replied.

A couple days later, Ohene Speller seemed sick. He had been vomiting and didn’t want to eat his baby cereal.

Walter Speller took the spoon from Campblin and shoved it into the 8-month-old boy’s mouth. That made Ohene cry all the harder.

“Walter got upset because he said he was acting like a little girl, acting like a bitch,” Campblin testified.

Campblin watched as Speller grabbed Ohene by the arm, yanked him out of his car seat, and smacked him in the back of the head. Speller threw the baby down on the bed. When Ohene continued to cry, Speller picked him up again and hit the child twice more in the head.

“He stopped crying because he started throwing up,” Campblin testified.

The baby’s body went rigid, and he grew red as he labored to breathe.

“He was just, like, lifeless in my arms,” Campblin said.

Campblin told Speller they needed to go to the hospital. But he delayed.

“He wanted to know what I was going to tell the doctors about the bite mark he had on his face,” Campblin said.

Campblin promised Speller she would tell doctors that Laniah accidentally bit Ohene. Speller drove them to the hospital, but he dropped them at the front door rather than the emergency department. He drove off, Laniah still in the car, while Campblin tried to find help for her son.

It was July 17, 2008. Doctors treated Ohene for seizures and bleeding in his brain. The next day, when Laniah came to visit her brother, hospital staff noticed the bruises covering her body and began to treat her, too.

Campblin admitted to hospital workers that Speller had beaten the children.

A police evidence photo of Campblin shows bruises on her face and neck.

It would be six months before Speller was arrested. A police photo of Speller shows him with close-cropped hair and a bushy goatee. He wears tattoos on his face: a cross on his forehead between his eyes, and black teardrops, one under his right eye, two under his left.

When prosecutor Fulton finished presenting evidence at his trial, Speller’s lawyer, Sonny Stallings, told the judge his client had two options: testify and let jurors decide his case, or plead guilty under an agreement offered by Fulton that would limit Speller’s prison term to a minimum of 12-1/2 years in prison and a maximum of 21 years.

If Speller testified, jurors would hear evidence of his prior convictions before deciding his guilt or innocence. The minimum time he would face if sentenced by a jury was 40 years; the maximum, two life terms.

Speller asked Judge Mary Jane Hall for time to think.

“That’s 12 to 21 years for something I didn’t do,” Speller said. “You know, come in here, saying OK, yes I did do it… that’s going to scar me for a long time.”

He pleaded guilty the next day.

Ohene and Laniah now live with foster parents. Laniah, now 5, has had eye surgery and sees therapists and a psychiatrist. She sometimes wakes at night, screaming. Ohene, like Isaiah, is paralyzed on his left side. Now 2 years old, he can crawl but cannot walk. Like Isaiah, he has only limited use of his left arm.

21 year-old Ashley Hepburn battered her 16 month-old baby girl to death; Hepburn caused the death of her daughter by battering her and causing irreparable damage to her brain.

The child was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday with alive but later died.

It was Hepburn’s boyfriend Richard Brandon Lewis who went to check on the child 1:30 am and found her lying face down in the corner of her crib unresponsive. He woke Hepburn and directed her to call 911.

Lewis reported that he knew the baby was okay at 11:30 pm. He does not live at the dwelling but said he stays a few nights a week.

Hepburn claims she put the baby to bed at 10:30. She had been fussy from teething but was fine. Hepburn alleges she then went to sleep until Lewis woke her with the unresponsive baby.

I don’t think the injuries happened all at once, this baby was tortured to death.

Troy Dean, of Lafayette, IN has plead guilty of abusing is infant son; and will serve NO jail time.

Dean will spend 6 years on supervised probation; Dean will serve 312 hours of community service and spend 2 years residing in his parents’ home in Grand Rapids Michigan. Dean and his wife and two children are currently living with his parents.

He plead guilty to neglect of a dependent causing serious bodily injury; he alleges he was sleep deprived when he violently shook the 4 month-old infant causing permanent brain damage. Both parents of the infant have testified that Dean has learened to provide care of his now brain damaged son, as well as physical therapy.

The judge told Dean, “Punishment this court could give will never be like the punishment you’ll have every morning when you wake up and see that little boy. There’s nothing I can do to punish you more than that.”

The judge was floored at the lack of emotion from both Troy Dean and his wife during their testimony.

Troy Dean’s wife, Amy, had the audacity to tell the judge: “To get through something like that, I wouldn’t be able to talk. If I started to cry, I would never be able to stop. I’ve never shown emotion in public and it appears cold, but I promise there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t cry about my son,” she said.

So the baby will now never have the opportunity for the life he was born to live… a travesty!

NOT 29 pounds… Jurors deliberated for just more than a day before finding Melvin and Denise Wright guilty of attempted murder after they nearly starved their 12-year-old daughter to death in 2007.

Do the parents look starved?!? Denise here alleges it is Melvin’s fault because he was living elsewhere with his whore and didn’t provide enough funds for her to feed Indigo (her daughter). Her attorney claims she was debilitated by mental illness… yet D testified for herself… blaming the penis. D says she lived off chips and cookies that Mel brought her and fed Indigo potatoes and macaroni a couple of times a day; does this story sound like they are making it up as they go to anyone else?

Mel’s attorney said while Mel wasn’t the greatest dad he didn’t attempt to murder anyone…

Mauldin told officers he heard a loud thump and found the girl lying motionless on the floor. An emergency room nurse told police that the brain injury wouldn’t have happened from a fall. Also, Alyssa was bruised and had a fresh break to a bone. Finally, she recently had a cast removed for a broken thigh bone. Police are investigating that injury as well.

Just when you couldn’t think this story could get any worse – seven hours after Alyssa died, Brandy gave birth Donald’s baby girl, Lucy. The baby is in custody of social services because Brandy admitted that she smoked marijuana every day to relieve morning sickness. They also have custody of Alyssa’s 17-month-old sister. Police have charged Brandy with unlawful conduct toward a child. And they’ve charged her and Donald with possession with intent to distribute marijuana.

Let’s count how many risk factors are present, shall we? Pot smoking pregnant mom with a pot smoking boyfriend. Mom knocked up by new boyfriend, but had two kids with another guy(s). Mom leaves kids alone with boyfriend while she’s at work. Previous injuries to kid, like bruises and broken bones. It all adds up to one dead kid and two others in protective custody – tragic.

The victim, Dominick Adams, has a shunt in the left side of his brain. He’s blind in his right eye, and gets nosebleeds frequently as a result of the beating which left him unconscious and with a broken arm. Dominick was only two when his mother’s then boyfriend lost his temper and beat him. Now he is now four and attends weekly therapy sessions.

“My son has scars, he has problems in school, he’s blind in his right eye,” said JenaV Adams, the victim’s mother. “He has to deal with it every day of his life for the rest of his life.”

Adams plans to speak to the parole board. “I’m just going to let them know what our family’s gone through, and let them know that they need to keep him where he is for as long as possible, so he can’t do this to another family, another child,” said Adams. She also said that a 15-year sentence won’t make up for what’s happened especially since Barber never apologized.

A Department of Corrections spokesperson says Michael Barber is in maximum security at the prison because of behavioral problems. Tomorrow the parole board could set a parole date or schedule another hearing. The board has 30 days to make that decision.

Adams says she fears retaliation when Barber gets out of prison. As part of his sentence, Barber must also pay for Domick’s medical bills.

With nearly half its population under the age of 18, it’ll be interesting to see if the Utah Department of Corrections keeps this monster off its streets. Stay tuned.